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Vick, Helen Hughes – 1993
Intended for adolescent readers, this award-winning book is the first in a time travel trilogy that blends ancient Sinagua and present-day Hopi Indian life with archaeology, social awareness, and adventure. The books relate the story of Walker Talayesva, a contemporary Hopi teenager who travels back in time 800 years to take his place as the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, American Indian Culture, Anthropology, Family Life
Soto, Gary – 1994
This novel relates the story of Jesse and Abel, two Mexican American brothers trying to improve their life situation and and escape their heritage of tedious physical labor by furthering their education through junior college. Jesse loves his mother, but grows tired of his mean and disrespectful Anglo stepfather. Jesse doesn't understand why his…
Descriptors: Activism, Aspiration, Fiction, High Schools
Download full textFrench, Laurence, Ed.; Hornbuckle, Jim, Ed. – 1981
Cherokee students at the Qualla Boundary started a student organization in 1973 to improve educational prospects among Native Americans attending non-Indian colleges and universities. Because cultural conflict was perceived as playing a crucial role in the failure of Cherokee students in higher education, a major objective of the group was to…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Art Products
